Tony McKibbin
Tony McKibbin's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when
published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Senses of Cinema
| Publications: | Senses of Cinema |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 4/5 | 100% | Exit (Hui guang zoumingqu) (2015) |
A lovely study of longing and abandonment, frayed connections and emancipatory possibilities, Exit manages to relay events from Ling's perspective while seldom relying on point-of-view shots.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Apr 25, 2015
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| 4/5 | 97% | Goodbye, Children (Au Revoir Les Enfants) (1987) |
It was a story that, 'kept haunting me all these years,' Malle said, and it's likely to haunt the viewer a little also.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jan 26, 2015
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| 5/5 | 94% | Journey To The West (2014) |
It is a work that appears to ask so little from its audience (not much more than patience and an alert eye), but gives a heck of a lot back.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2014
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| 3/5 | 100% | Feng ai ('Til Madness Do Us Part) (2013) |
Wang Bing's arduous four hour documentary makes for challenging viewing.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2014
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| 4/5 | 87% | Stray Dogs (2014) |
General Tsai admirers may prefer earlier films like Vive L'amour and The River, but this is still rigorous cinema at its most assured.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jun 24, 2014
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| 4/5 | 100% | Three Sisters (2013) |
Resolute in detailing an appallingly quotidian family.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jul 16, 2013
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| 3/5 | No Score Yet | Jiseul (2012) |
Its often compositional beauty and sensitivity fail to elevate it into a major work, and perhaps its general approach to character might leave it a minor one even in terms of audience reception.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2013
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet | White Epilepsy (2012) |
A film by a modern master.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jun 24, 2013
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| 4/5 | 83% | Like Someone in Love (2013) |
[A] beautiful, subtly tender and narratively slight film ...‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jun 21, 2013
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| 4/5 | 57% | Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
Reygadas is, from a certain point of view, one of modern cinema's masters: a director who wants to work with productive frustration as he creates images using a distorting, bevelled lens to size up a world that is itself distorted.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Mar 18, 2013
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| 4/5 | 91% | Beyond The Hills (2013) |
This is very much post-Ceaușescu Romania (based on an actual case from 2005), but the regime's effects are still felt.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Feb 12, 2013
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| 4/5 | 100% | Nostalgia for the Light (2011) |
Patricio Guzman returns to the subject of his masterpiece.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jul 17, 2012
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| 3/5 | 27% | Life Just Is (2012) |
Alex Barrett's feature debut gets caught between placing itself within the context of bigger questions of the meaning of life with the smaller demands of looking for a job after graduating.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jul 9, 2012
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet | Demain? (2012) |
The film has a chilly feel with the passion contained - as if the film were about the ghosts of the characters as readily as their embodiment.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jul 9, 2012
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet | Jam-mot deun-eun bam (Sleepless Night) (2012) |
A minor but nuanced account of a couple moving forward in their lives.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jul 9, 2012
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| 4/5 | No Score Yet | Autrement, la Molussie (Differently, Molussia) (2012) |
Utilising numerous landscape images that might bring to mind the work of the Straubs, Claude Lanzmann and Patrick Keiller, Rey uses a series of extracts from Anders' book that capture the paradoxical and the obscure.‐ The List
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2012
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